Cuspidariidae

Cuspidariidae is a family of small marine bivalve molluscs in the superfamily Cuspidarioidea.

Cuspidariidae

George Brettingham Sowerby II · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CuspidarioideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 416 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 416 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 416 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 416 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 416 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 416 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 139 of 416 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 43 of 416 occurrencesEocene — about 53 of 416 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 30 of 416 occurrencesMiocene — about 55 of 416 occurrencesPliocene — about 44 of 416 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 416 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–228 Mya — about 5 occurrences228–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–195 Mya — about 2 occurrences195–187 Mya — about 5 occurrences187–179 Mya — about 3 occurrences179–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–106 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences106–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–90 Mya — about 12 occurrences90–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 15 occurrences73–65 Mya — about 105 occurrences65–57 Mya — about 35 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 29 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 14 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 17 occurrences33–24 Mya — about 22 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 40 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 78 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka244 Mya0 Mya

416 occurrences of Cuspidariidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

416 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

137 formations

Corsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 32.04°N, 96.50°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.44°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 32.56°N, 97.14°WWoodbine — 32.65°N, 97.23°WWoodbine — 32.93°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 33.05°N, 96.99°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.30°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ECook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°EPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°EDakota — 36.02°N, 111.05°WDakota — 35.99°N, 111.94°WDakota — 36.55°N, 110.49°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.47°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 50.06°N, 10.79°EMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°E

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The named rock units Cuspidariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 113 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuspidariidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cuspidariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 280 sites for Cuspidariidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

140 references

Each of the 416 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 128 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cuspidariidae

Credit
George Brettingham Sowerby II
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cuspidariidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCuspidarioidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1886